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Can any readers give more information about Miss Shephard, Dunlop, Montgomery, Francham and Bland, who are not in the 'D.N.B.' ?

For Addison, Budgell, Martyn, Pope, Hughes, Tickell, Parnell and Eusden, see Steele's paper, ' Spectator,' No. 555. He mentions also there Mr. Carey of New College, Oxford, but no paper is assigned to this contributor. S.

BLACK MASS (12 S. vii. 48, 90, 137).- A full account of Albert Pike, 1809-1891, with references to his works, written by the late Robert Freke Gould, was published in Ars Quatuor Cvronatorum, vol. iv. 116-157 (1891) together with his portrait.

W. B. H.

WILLOW PATTERN CHINA (12 S. vii. 169).

Gulland in his 'Chinese Porcelain ' (1898)

gives the story of the " willow pattern. " He states that the three figures are a Mandarin, his daughter Li -Chi, and secretary Chang. Li-Chi fell in love with Chang, who lived in the island cottage at the top of the plate. The Mandarin forbade the match and the lovers eloped, and lay concealed for a time in the gardener's cottage, and from thence made their escape to the island home of the lover. The father pursued them with a whip, and would have beaten them to death had not the gods changed them into turtle- doves. It is called the willow pattern because at the time of the elopement, the willow at one end of the bridge began to shed its leaves. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

Your inquirer will find a full and com- plete history of the story on willow pattern

china in vol. i. of ' The Family Friend ' for 1849 (published by Houlstone & Stoneman, 65 Paternoster Row). The story fills some eight pages, so is too long for insertion ; but

the three figures crossing the bridge are those of (1) the lady Koong seen carrying a distaff, (2) Chang, her lover and her father's secretary carrying a box of jewels, and (3) the mandarin, the lady's enraged 'father bearing a whip in his hand.

FRANCES E. BAKER. 91 Brown Street, Salisbury.

LOWESTOFT CHINA (12 S. vii. 49). It may interest MR. ACKERMANN and others interested in Lowestoft china to hear that the designs for the decoration of china made at Lowestoft are still in exist- ence. Only last autumn I was examining

them and might have become their owner

for a consideration a considerable con- sideration !

They appeared to be what was claimed for them ; I did not examine critically into their history but the account given of them was feasible, and they were then in Suffolk only a few miles from Lowestoft.

There are several hundred designs, con- tained in a large portfolio about 2 ft. by 1^. The paper on which they were drawn varied considerably and some of it suggested an oriental origin, and probably these designs came from abroad.

Many of them struck me as not being at all in keeping with the general idea of Lowestoft decoration, resembling the large birds seen on Worcester vases, unknown to ornithologists. Also large oriental human, figures hitherto associated with no authentic Lowestoft piece.

Many of the designs had been used, as they showed marks of having been pinned down and run over with a fine point.

Thorndon. H. A. HARRIS.

EARLY ENGLISH TOURISTS AT CHAMONIX (12 S. vii. 149). Lord Sunderlin was Richard Malone, a well known Irish barrister, and later a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, who was created a peer in 1785. He married in 1778, Philippa Elizabeth Dorothy, daughter of Godolphin Rooper, of Great Berkhamstead, Herts. He was brother to Edmond Malone, the Shakespearian scholar. In Prior's Life of Malone it is mentioned that the Sunderlins were on the Riviera in the Spring of 1786, and they may have gone on to Chamonix. In 1786 Lord Paget would be 18, Lord Worcester 20, and Lord C. Somerset 19. In any case the expedition would probably be between 1786 and 1793 after which date Lord Paget appears to have been fully occupied with his military duties. Lord Worcester became Duke of Beaufort in 1803.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge.

In reply to query by MR. J. B. WAINE- WRIGHT the Sunderlins were Lord and Lady Sunderlin. He was Richard Malone, eldest son of Edmund Malone and brother of Edmund Malone (sepond son), the Shake- spearean critic.

Richard was born 1738 ; student Inner Temple 1757; B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 1759; M.P. for Granard in Irish House of. Commons, 1768-76, and for Banager, 1783- 85; created Lord Sunderlin in June, 1785 ;